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A coding color theme for burned-out eyes

Boing Boing·Rob Beschizza·about 1 month ago
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Warm Burnout is a theme for those who are burned out, but need to meet their deadlines. Every color is chosen to please the eyes, calm the mind, and avoid the brain-poking bright blues alleged to interfere with sleep cycles. It's all very brown: like a tasty chocolate or vanilla cookie, depending on whether you're using the light or dark variant. "Most themes look good in screenshots," writes creator Felipe Lima. "Then you use them for 14 hours straight and your eyes feel like they have been sandpapered." This is because, he writes, fashionable cold cyans and purples hit the wavelength range that suppresses melatonin production : "Blue syntax at 2AM isn't a vibe. It's why your eyes hate you and your sleep is dead." Ready configurations are available for VS Code, Neovim, Zsh, Windows Terminal, Xcode and various other editors and environments. In the dark variant, every token meets the WCAG AAA contrast ratio requirement of 7:1.…

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